GO DOGS! INC
SASHA &
CHEYENNE
(& MADALYN)
The Scebold Dogs
SASHA
MARIE
Flyball Master Excellent
with Dave Scebold
Sasha
is our 4 year old Black Tri Australian
Shepherd (she’ll be 5 August 20, 2003) and was given to me as a birthday present. She came from a breeder in Springfield, NE. I had researched several dog breeds that would be
good for my family and found the Aussie’s to have a lot of the qualities I liked. We started puppy kindergarten right away and were
then directed to obedience at Go Dogs, where one of the trainers noticed how much she
liked balls and thought she would be a great flyball dog.
We took the class and have been hooked ever since. You know how much she loves it when you get ready
to go into the ring for a race, she starts getting all excited, jumping and barking!!! Then when it’s her turn in the line-up, you
lean down and tell her “ready” and she gets into her launch position,
“GO” you tell her, she races off
down the lane and over those jumps to get that ball and bring it back to you for her
treat!!! My husband Dave runs Sasha now and they are a wonderful team!!! Sasha has been a joy to our lives and you just
melt when she looks at you with those “just love me” brown eyes!!! Sasha turned out to be such and excellent dog that
when I found out, about a year and a half later, that her parents had just had another
litter, I just couldn’t pass up just checking them out!!! Of course I took one!!!
CHEYENNE
LYNN
Flyball Master
with JamieSue Scebold
Cheyenne
is our 3 year old Blue Merle Australian Shepherd (born April 28, 2000). I picked Cheyenne because after spending time
with the litter she seemed to have the best personality and she had gorgeous markings!!!
Since I was now officially hooked on flyball, I was very anxious to see how Cheyenne would
do in the sport. From the get go she was
extremely ball motivated, she wanted nothing more then to get that ball fast and bring it
back so you could throw it again, I was very please to see this. Cheyenne did very well in flyball class, the one
problem we ran into was that Cheyenne seemed to have a stronger herding instinct then her
sister Sasha. She would want to chase after
the dog in the other lane that had a ball too. Through
the wonderful support and ideas from my flyball teammates, we worked through this issue. She is generally a start dog because again she is
so ball motivated she sometimes gets distracted if another dog is running at her with a
ball in it’s mouth, we continue to work on this, but as
a start dog she does fantastic. We have actually had two perfect starts!!! What I am most proud of with Cheyenne is that she
has a natural swimmers turn off the box, which makes for a faster return. She runs her leg in about 4.3 seconds. She has an extremely sweet demeaner, her goal in
life it to please us (and chase balls!!) I
can’t say enough about the joy our dogs and this sport has brought to our lives!!!
FYI- Watch for your newest family member coming soon. Madalyn Ann is an Aussie mix we rescued from the Nebraska Human society in January 2003. She was approx. 8-12 weeks when we got her and has shown awesome flyball potential!!!
MADALYN ANN - Future Athlete
